cmahns is experiencing persistent failures when attempting to merge user accounts via both the web interface and rake users:merge, encountering an ArgumentError: topic during the process. The issue affects multiple user pairs, including n_stylo into nat12 and NikS into NikS15. The error originates in post_owner_changer.rb, suggesting a problem with topic associations during post migration. A recurring warning about the discourse-user-notes plugin being named discourse-staff-notes in the filesystem was noted 6, though RGJ clarifies this is likely cosmetic and not the root cause. JammyDodger suggests testing with LOAD_PLUGINS=0 to rule out plugin interference 9, while also cautioning that disabling plugins may affect data from other extensions like polls or topic voting 10. A potential solution comes from per1234, who traced a similar hang to “orphaned” posts — posts linked to non-existent topics — and recommends using a Data Explorer query to identify and clean them before retrying the merge.
Currently running into an issue of a failed user merge of a very active user account into a new user. The user no longer has access to the previous user account and email, and due to my instance being on Auth0 SSO (which I do not have access to) I need to merge the users.
This hangs running in the browser, and I seem to be unable to kick the merge off using the application console as well.
Error Log, from running rake users:merge
# rake users:merge['redacted-source-user','redacted-target-user'] --trace
Plugin name is 'discourse-user-notes', but plugin directory is named 'discourse-staff-notes'
** Invoke users:merge (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute users:merge
rake aborted!
ArgumentError: topic
/var/www/discourse/app/services/post_owner_changer.rb:12:in `block in initialize'
/var/www/discourse/app/services/post_owner_changer.rb:11:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/app/services/post_owner_changer.rb:11:in `initialize'
/var/www/discourse/app/services/user_merger.rb:83:in `new'
/var/www/discourse/app/services/user_merger.rb:83:in `change_post_owner'
/var/www/discourse/app/services/user_merger.rb:71:in `block in move_posts'
/var/www/discourse/app/services/user_merger.rb:69:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/app/services/user_merger.rb:69:in `move_posts'
/var/www/discourse/app/services/user_merger.rb:14:in `merge!'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/users.rake:57:in `block in <main>'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:279:in `block in execute'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:279:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:279:in `execute'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:219:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:199:in `synchronize'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:199:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:188:in `invoke'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:160:in `invoke_task'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:116:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:116:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:116:in `block in top_level'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:125:in `run_with_threads'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:110:in `top_level'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:83:in `block in run'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:186:in `standard_exception_handling'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:80:in `run'
bin/rake:13:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:58:in `load'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:58:in `kernel_load'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:23:in `run'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli.rb:492:in `exec'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `invoke_command'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor.rb:392:in `dispatch'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli.rb:34:in `dispatch'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/base.rb:485:in `start'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli.rb:28:in `start'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/exe/bundle:45:in `block in <top (required)>'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/friendly_errors.rb:117:in `with_friendly_errors'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/exe/bundle:33:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/bin/bundle:25:in `load'
/usr/local/bin/bundle:25:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => users:merge
Not sure if there’s some other thing I need to do for users like this, source user is a 7 year old account with 834 posts made, target user has 162 posts.
Sorry for the delay in responding. This may be a shot in the dark but is the user notes warning at the top of each of these errors meaningful?
I think I’ve seen a prior issue where the user notes plugin didn’t like not having its updated name. Could you amend it in your app.yml, rebuild, and see if that helps?
That was a client side issue.
I’ve never seen that server-side warning indicating an actual problem. It’s just something that pops up every rake or rails c command line.
I thought that too, but thought it worth a punt just in case. User notes + merging seemed like it could be an unhappy marriage if there were any conflicts for some reason.
This may be a shot in the dark but is the user notes warning at the top of each of these errors meaningful?
User notes + merging seemed like it could be an unhappy marriage if there were any conflicts for some reason.